Samuel mason



SAMUEL MASON, OF BEAVER LLS, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO BEATEEL O'UTLERY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 87,786, dated Marck 16, 1869.

IMPROVEMNT IN TABLE-OUTLERY.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of. the same.

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To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL MASON, of Beaver Falls, in the county of Beaver, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Table-Cutlery; and I do hereby declare the followf ing to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

In the old inode of manufacturing table-cutlery, a flat tang was made, as long and as bread as the vban- `die desired, and on the opposite faces of this scales were riveted, and thus. the handle was made, sometimes with and sometimes without holsters.

Cutlery thus made has always been liable to the objection that the edges of the tang are exposed, and are liable to oxidize; also to the further objection, that water will 'graduallywork into the joints, between the tang and the scales, to the serious injury of both, oxidizing the faces of the former, and softening the latter till they become loose and fall oil. Hence, a round tang has heen substituted for a dat tang, but as this is liablejto turn in the handle, or, if fastened by rivets, to split the handle, its use has been unsatisfactory.

The defects or disadvantages above referred to, I have entirely obviated 'by making a dat and round tang, by which to attach articles of table-cutlery to their handles, the flat part of the tang being next the blade, and by making a recessed, or bored, and slitted, or bifnrcated handle, to which, by a rivet passing through both, to attach a knife-blade or fork so made; and therein'eonsists the nature of my invention.

To' enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construe/ tion and mode of operation, reference being had to the accompanying d1awings, making a part of this specication, in which- Figure l is a side view of a knife-blade with dat and round tang.

Figure 2 is a side, and

Figure 3, an edge view of the same attached to its handle.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in each.

b is the blade of a table-knife, with a tang, consisting of a dat part, c, and what is technically known as a round part, c.

lThese parts are forged, or otherwise, brought to the shape or form desired.

The dat part a of the tang, should'be broad enough, so that when inserted between the lips, or sides s, of a slit, or mortise in the end of a handle, al, it will be so engaged thereby, as to prevent the round part c' from turning in the recess of the handle in is fitted, as shown by dotted lines in fig. 2.

Practically, I usually make the round tang, vci' square shape in cross-section,in ordi may fit the tighter in the round hole bore handlefor its reception; but I do not limit 1 any particular shape, provided the same en cured. The handle d, I make solid, of wood or ot able material, and slit, or mortise its end, as

`to receive the flat, a, and bore, or recess the receive the round c. The two are theni gather, and a rivet, e, passing through the sides s, of the handle, and through the rive ofthe tang, holds them securely together.

A knife can be thus made more cheaply the old method, as it requires less material fori and less work in making the handle. It is strong and durable as a knife made by the old is neater in its finish and general appearanc not liable to any of the objections above refer existing in connection with the knife made wil wholly iiator Wholly round.

The same mode of making and attaching t: handles together, is applicable to other articles It will also be observed, that in a knife of struction described, the dat part of the tan the recess in the end of the handle, sucientl a rivet to he passed through, to hold the twot and also that the round part of the tang c' extend through the rear, or outer end of the Hence,

"What I claim as my invention, and desirei by Letters Patent, is-

Making articles of table-cutlery, in whic part, a, of the tang, shall ent-er a slit, or m( the end of the handle, to a depth such that may be fastened securely together by a rive in which 'a smaller, or round part, c, of i shall enter, but not pass entirely through the the "handle, substantially as and for the purl forth.

In testimony whereof, I, the said SAMUEL have hereunto set my. hand.

SAML. MA

Witnesses:

Taos. B. KEER, C. O. TAYLOR. 

